I dont know what you majored. But when I was a CS major maybe 50% of my grade came from projects. We wrote a compiler from scratch, wrote something that resembled a SQL engine from scratch, and wrote sizeable portions of an operating system. In my sophomore year we spent at least 20 hours a week on various projects a week.
We could use any resource we coulc find as long as we didn't submit anything we didn't write ourselves. This meant stackoverflow and online documentations.
There is no way you can test a student's ability to implement a large, complex system with thousands of lines of code in a three hour exam. There is just no way. I am not against closed book paper exams, I just wish the people touting them as the solution can be more realistic about what they can and cannot do.
We could use any resource we coulc find as long as we didn't submit anything we didn't write ourselves. This meant stackoverflow and online documentations.
There is no way you can test a student's ability to implement a large, complex system with thousands of lines of code in a three hour exam. There is just no way. I am not against closed book paper exams, I just wish the people touting them as the solution can be more realistic about what they can and cannot do.